This paper describes an installation created by LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots) in January, 2005. The installation included over 30 robotic musical instruments and a multi-projector real-time video projection and was controllable and programmable over a MIDI network. The installation was also controllable remotely via the Internet and could be heard and viewed via room mics an...

background: current development of surgery is due to medical practitioners and surgeons practices and experiments throughout the history. albucasis, the muslim spanish physician in 10 century ad was one of the pioneers in surgery that had major influence by his innovations in surgical techniques, treatment approaches and invention of instruments. he introduced a type of surgical knife named mok...

Objective: To validate the Spanish version of the questionnaire Gambrill and Richey Assertiveness for people with schizophrenia. Method: he sample comprised a total of 125 people with schizophrenia on treatment in one of the psychosocial rehabilitation centers participating in the study. The instruments used to assess convergent and discriminant validity are the Communication Skills Questionnai...

Accurate measurement of the amount and timing of surface runoff at multiple scales is needed to understand fundamental hydrological processes. At the plot scale (i.e., length scales on the order of 1–10 m) current methods for direct measurement of runoff either store the water in a collection vessel, which is not conducive to long-term monitoring studies, or utilize expensive installations such...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Organizational learning scale Modes of knowledge conversion Learning sub-processes Types of learning This study describes the development and validation of an instrument to measure organizational learning. Starting out from a comprehensive analysis of the main organizational learning models in the specialized literature , the organizational learning scale in this...

The technique of spectroastrometry (measuring the wavelength dependence of the position of an object) provides a means of studying the spatial structure of astronomical sources on scales much smaller than the seeing disk size or the diiraction limit. Despite successful demonstrations in the past, the method does not seem to be widely known. This paper describes techniques used at the Anglo-Aust...